21 Responses to “Hacking the Verizon Network Extender”

This is very interesting. It seems like you were able to get pretty far with this, so kudos for all your work. I look forward to seeing if you can completely overcome all of the blocking and access Verizon from Canada.

Thanks for you comment!
As you can see we get allot of fun out of hacking these kind of things! LOL
I was just wondering how you found my blog! Has google already got me! :) LOL
I’ve got another update coming as soon as I have time to write it:)

I was actually looking around on Google for someone who had hacked the network extender out of curiosity and I found your post on page two. It was actually exactly what I was looking for and super detailed with pictures too.

I’m curious if you tried to use this before hacking it? I took mine to Dubai UAE and it worked great. Verizon certainly doesn’t offer service there, so I’m inclined to believe that either its a ‘north american’ ip block or something similar, rather than a GPS location check.

This hack is exactly what I need. I frequently work in basements (radiation oncology centers) without a cell signal so I bought the unit to be able to use my cell phone since we have high speed internet access there. These are all in the USA where Verizon provides service if you stand outside. Of course, there is no GPS signal in the shielded basement either, so the unit becomes worthless.

If there is a easy way to modify mine to take to Europe on vacation, I want to do it. I would never dial 911 from my hotel room (15-30′ from my network extender) If needed. we would just use the land line on the night stand!

Were you ever able to successfully pass fake GPS serial data in to it? Also, which model of the samsung network extender were you using?
I’d be happy to set you up with a permanent VPN link to the US if you’re still interested.

Hello Danny,
We did fake the GPS signal, but we still ran into problems including that the network extender checks the time against the server time, and if it’s off it won’t allow it to run. Also there’s some kind of IP blocking. Another interesting thing is that on the bottom there’s a serial port which we were able to gain access to the linux OS through, I didn’t want to take the time to really do stuff in it, but I’m sure it could all be done with software!

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